Source: alalam.ir, 24-8-2007
UNITED NATIONS -The ambassadors of Arab nations to UN denounced the Zionist regime`s plot in changing the name of entities in occupied Palestinian territories.
This came during the 9th International Conference of the Standardization of Geographical Names, which will be held in the United Nations and will continue until the 30th of this month.
Yahya Mahmassani, Arab League representative in UN, said in this regards that we have convened with Arab nations and especially members of Non-Aligned Movement to reach an objective to gain International Community support to address the "Israeli" attempts seeking to change the names of places in the occupied Palestinian territories.
In this context, Syrian delegate to UN, Bashar Jaafari also told Alalam TV, "The new ‘Israeli' endeavor in fact aims at breaking the rule adopted by the United Nations in 1977, which calls for respect for geographical names of countries and cities".
"The Zionist regime tries to change the Arabic names of occupied Palestinian territories. In fact it seeks to introduce these territories by Hebrew names."
Based on this report, the Zionist regime has called along side the same conference to change the name of "West Bank" to "Judea and Samaria".
This is while the Palestinian representative to the United Nations Riyad Mansour also said that the "Israeli" regime`s initiative has nothing to do with standardizing the Geographical names, but it tries to follow the Zionists` prejudice and ideology. "So we have no option to choose except resisting against this plot."
He also added "It should be noted that ‘Israeli' is trying to follow its occupation policy of Palestinian lands and seek to entrench the status quo in global maps and atlases but it was rejected very particularly by the Islamic states".